Optical physics

This atlas provides a detailed overview of the novel technique of ex vivo confocal microscopy for rapid imaging of excised tissues in dermatological practice.

This book provides an overview of the fundamentals of plasmonic field enhancement phenomena and the recent advancements in the field of hydrogen energy technologies that utilize plasmonics for their performance enhancement.

This thesis presents the first successful realization of a compact, low-noise, and few-cycle light source in the mid-infrared wavelength region.

This book presents new frontiers in data communication.

This book highlights cutting-edge research in surface plasmons, discussing the different types and providing a comprehensive overview of their applications.

The idea for this text emerged over several years as the authors participated in research projects related to analysis of data from NASA's RHESSI Small Explorer mission.

This book presents fresh insights into analogue quantum simulation.

This textbook provides comprehensive and detailed information on electro-optic modulation, which plays important roles in lightwave networks including optical fiber links, visible ray communications, fiber-wireless, etc.

This book is the first book of its kind, focusing exclusively on the optical properties of snow.

The book aims to the description of recent progress in studies of light absorption and scattering in turbid media.

What are the physical mechanisms that underlie the efficient generation and transfer of energy at the nanoscale?

This book presents a unified view of the response of materials as a result of femtosecond laser excitation, introducing a general theory that captures both ultrashort-time non-thermal and long-time thermal phenomena.

This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of the major aspects involved in the science, technology and applications of ceramics, glasses and glass-ceramics.

This book delivers a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of practical applications of metamaterials, structured media, and conventional porous materials.

The conference has an interdisciplinary focus and aims to bring together scientists - mathematicians, electrical engineers, computer scientists, and physicists, from universities and industry - to have in-depth discussions of the latest scientific results in Computational Science and Engineering relevant to Electrical Engineering and to stimulate and inspire active participation of young researchers.

Several Python programming books feature tools designed for experimental psychologists.

This book advances understanding of light-induced phase transitions and nonequilibrium orders that occur in a broken-symmetry system.

This volume collects the edited and reviewed contribution presented in the 9th iTi Conference that took place virtually, covering fundamental and applied aspects in turbulence.

This textbook presents a comprehensive introduction to ultrafast laser physics with a keen awareness of the needs of graduate students.

This book presents peer-reviewed and selected papers of the International Youth Conference on Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technologies (YETI-2021), held in Peter the Great St.

This book gives an in-depth analysis of the physical phenomena of thrust production by laser radiation, as well as laser propulsion engines, and laser-propelled vehicles.

This book contains several contemporary topics in the areas of mathematical modelling and computation for complex systems.

This book summarizes the latest findings by leading researchers in the field of photon science in Russia and Japan.

This book presents state-of-the-art solution methods and applications of stochastic optimal control.

This book aims to present a survey of a large class of nonlinear dynamical systems exhibiting mixed-mode oscillations (MMOs).

This book on advanced optoisolation circuits for nonlinearity applications in engineering addresses two separate engineering and scientific areas, and presents advanced analysis methods for optoisolation circuits that cover a broad range of engineering applications.

This book is a thoroughly modern and highly pedagogical graduate-level introduction to quantum optics, a subject which has witnessed stunning developments in recent years and has come to occupy a central role in the 'second quantum revolution'.

This book explores the single components that commonly constitute luminaires for interiors, describing their operating principles, families, strengths and weaknesses.

This book looks at advanced nanocomposites, introducing long-awaited concepts towards bridging the gap between nanostructured optical materials and next-generation imaging systems.

This book presents the synthetic methodologies as well as the properties and potential usage of various ruthenium-containing materials.

This new edition of a well-received textbook provides a concise introduction to both the theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum information at the graduate level.

This thesis presents several important aspects of the plasma dynamics in extremely high intensity electromagnetic fields when quantum electrodynamics effects have to be taken into account.

This book highlights some of the latest advances in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe and beyond.

The mid-infrared domain is a promising optical domain because it holds two transparency atmospheric windows, as well as the fingerprint of many chemical compounds.

The book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to upper-undergraduate students enrolled in physics.

This book analyzes a range of new developments in various fields concerning the concepts of chaos and complexity theory.

This book describes the fundamentals of THz communications, spanning the whole range of applications, propagation and channel models, RF transceiver technology, antennas, baseband techniques, and networking interfaces.

This book gives a complete spectral analysis of the non-self-adjoint Schrodinger operator with a periodic complex-valued potential.

This book collects several contributions presented at the 2019 meeting of the Italian Synchrotron Radiation Society (SILS), held in Camerino, Italy, from 9 to 11 September 2019.

This book focuses on recent interconnected topics in nanophotonics written by scientists at the forefront of these fields.

This book is aimed at description of recent progress in radiative transfer, atmospheric remote sensing, snow optics,  and light scattering.

This second edition of the outstanding monograph on coherent states by Combescure and Robert published in 2012 is enriched with figures, historical information and numerical simulations and enlarged with five new chapters presenting important rigorous results obtained in the recent years.

This book presents a survey of the aspects of economic complexity, with a focus on foundational, interdisciplinary ideas.

This book introduces the wider field of functional nanomaterials sciences, with a strong emphasis on semiconductor photonics.

This fourth book in the series Silicon Photonics gathers together reviews of recent advances in the field of silicon photonics that go beyond already established and applied concepts in this technology.

This work studies the relaxation dynamics of molecules in both the gas and liquid phases after strong field ionization, using transient absorption in the soft X-rays.

This thesis reports advances in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, relating to the development of new techniques and components that enhance the experimentalist's control over the terahertz polarisation state produced by photoconductive emitters.

This book describes the recently-discovered artificially curved light beam known as the photonic hook.

This graduate-level textbook presents the principles, design methods, simulation, and materials of photonic circuits.

Available for the first time in English, this two-volume course on theoretical and applied mechanics has been honed over decades by leading scientists and teachers, and is a primary teaching resource for engineering and maths students at St.